Our Vision & Goals

Our vision is that multidisciplinary multi-institutional collaborative research bringing together synergistic talents is the best approach to solve the multidimensional and complex problem of freshwater CyHABs and their negative impact on human, animal and the environmental health.

Our long-term research goals:

Study ecological factors which promote growth of CyHABs

Identify environmental factors which trigger cyanotoxin production

Determine the impact of CyHABs on living organisms

Assess effects of chronic and of simultaneous exposure to multiple cyanotoxins in livestock and in humans using animal models

Devise novel biosensor technologies for early detection and remote real-time sensing of toxins in water